Robert T. Price (June 7, 1903 – July 24, 1982)
was a justice of the
Kansas Supreme Court
The Kansas Supreme Court is the highest judicial authority in the U.S. state of Kansas. Composed of seven justices, led by Chief Justice Marla Luckert, the court supervises the legal profession, administers the judicial branch, and serves as t ...
from November 30, 1948, to May 1, 1966, and chief justice from May 1, 1966, to September 1, 1971. He filled the position of Justice of the Supreme Court No. 7 as the republican nominatee.
He succeed
Jay S. Parker who stepped down after 23 years as chief justice in May 1966.
When he retired
Perry L. Owsley, a Democrat was appointed to fill the court position with
Harold R. Fatzer appointed as the new chief justice.
Price was born in
Shawnee County, Kansas
Shawnee County is located in northeast Kansas, in the central United States. Its county seat and most populous city is Topeka, the state capital. As of the 2020 census, the population was 178,909, making it the third-most populous county ...
and was graduated from the
University of Kansas
The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Two branch campuses are in the Kansas City metropolitan area on the Kansas side: the university's medical school and hospital ...
.
He served in the navy in World War II, and spent 6 months as a prosecutor in the Japanese war trials.
Career
In 1948, Price ran for a seat on the Kansas Supreme Court. In August of that year Price pulled well ahead of three other candidates for the Republican primary nomination for the seat.
["Primary In State Goes As Expected", ''Council Grove Republican'' (August 4, 1948), p. 1.]
References
Justices of the Kansas Supreme Court
Chief justices of the Kansas Supreme Court
1903 births
1982 deaths
University of Kansas alumni
People from Shawnee County, Kansas
20th-century American judges
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